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Professor C.N.R. Rao is the National Research Professor and Linus Pauling Research Professor and Honorary President of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India. Also Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of Materials, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Prof. Rao is the past President of The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS) with its office located in Trieste, Italy and Chairman, Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister.
Important Academic Positions held by Prof.C.N.R. Rao
a. Professor of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India (Head of Department and later Dean of Research of the Institute) (1963-76).
b. Visiting Professor, Purdue University, 1967-68; 1982 (in part).
c. Commonwealth Visiting Professor, University of Oxford and Fellow, St. Catherine's College, Oxford (1974-75).
d. Distinguished Visiting Professor, LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
e. Jawaharlal Nehru Professor, University of Cambridge and Professorial Fellow, King's College, Cambridge (1983-84).
f. Founder Chairman, Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit and Materials Research Laboratory, Indian Institute of Science (1977-84).
g. Director, Indian Institute of Science (1984-94).
h. Visiting Professor, Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France (1990).
i. Honorary Professor, University of Wales, Cardiff (1993-1997).
j. President, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (1989-99).
k. Albert Einstein Research Professor (1995-1999).
l. Honorary Professor, Indian Institute of Science (1994- ).
m. Distinguished Visiting Professor of Materials, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA (1995- ).
n. Adjunct Professor of Chemistry, Purdue University (2004- ).
o. Visiting Professor, University of Southampton (2007- ).
p. Distinguished Research Fellow, University of Cambridge and Member of Sidney Sussex College (2007 - ).
q. Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of california, Berkeley (2008- ).
Research Interests
Prof.C.N.R. Rao has research laboratories at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research as well as at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Although Prof. Rao started his career working on spectra and structure of molecules, his research interests have slowly moved almost entirely to Solid State and Materials Chemistry, Surface Science and related areas.
In Solid State and Materials Chemistry, his present interests are mainly in phenomena and properties exhibited by transition metal oxide systems, including high temperature superconductivity, colossal magnetoresistance and metal-insulation transitions. Synthesis and characterization of designer solids with novel structures and properties is another important area of interest. Efforts to make nanoparticles and nanoparticle assemblies, open framework structures and porous solids are underway. Structural tools, specially those involving various spectroscopies and X-ray crystallography are heavily employed. Interests in surface spectroscopy include study of model surfaces, metal clusters and so on. The research group of Prof. Rao has around 20 members, besides several colleagues with whom he collaborates.
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